United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has underscored the importance of an environment conducive to peaceful and credible elections in Ghana, local media reported Wednesday. In separate telephone conversations on Tuesday with President John Dramani Mahama and Nana Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), to discuss the December 7 election, Ban […]
The Ghana Standards on Accessibility Design (GSAD) document provides specification on how buildings, roads and recreational centers should be designed so as to make them accessible to all, especially the PWDs. Deputy Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Della Sowah, said addressing crucial challenges that affected the people was at the core of Ghana’s […]
Kwame Mensah, Coordinator for KASA, an initiative aimed at enhancing the capacity of civil society and media organizations for concerted and evidence- based advocacy, made the call against the backdrop of the upcoming Universal Periodic Review of Ghana’s Human Rights records by the UN next November. He said although the government had taken steps to […]
Samuel Bekoe, Anglophone Africa Regional Associate at the Natural Resources Governance Institute, told Xinhua at a refresher course for journalists in Natural Resource Reporting in Koforidua, Eastern Regional capital, that the challenges facing Ghana’s maiden FPSO was strange, coming just five years after it had started operations. The vessel – FPSO – was named after […]
The Asantehemaa passed away on November 14,2016 at the age of 105. The Association is saddened by the death of the wise Queen Mother under whose guidance and supervision the Great King has ruled the Asante Kingdom over the past years. A statement from the secretariat called on the Asantehene and the people of the […]
A release, signed by Mr Joseph Forson, the Volta Regional Manager, ECG, and copied to the Ghana News Agency said “the provision of the generators is part of the Company’s initiative to ensure constant illumination during and after next week’s general election”. He said the Company had already undertaken a number of planned maintenance work […]
The 100,000 Ghana cedi project was part of the company’s social responsibility to its host community. Mrs Harriet Wereko-Brobbey, General Manager, WAPCO, told residents that the company was committed to the health, sanitation and overall development of the community. According to her, the company had provided skips to store and cart refuse which had enormously […]
It was organized by the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) with support from STAR-Ghana, a multi-donor pooled funding mechanism. On hand, to assist them to have better understanding and work within the context of their core mandate, was the Ashanti Regional Training Manager of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mr. Eric Mensah Bonsu. He cautioned them […]
Madam Emelia Menokpor, Principal Social Welfare Officer, Tema Metropolitan Department of Social Welfare and Community Development, gave the advice when interacting with mothers and women from Tema Newtown. The department had organised a sensitisation programme on child labour and its related effect in the area which is deprived and afflicted with low literacy and high […]
The list made available to the Ghana News Agency in Accra by Mr George Amoah, Greater Accra Regional EC Director is as follows: S/N CONSTITUENCY SPECIAL VOTING CENTRE CODE SPECIAL VOTING CENTRE NAME & LOCATION 1 BORTIANOR-NGLESHIE AMANFRO SC0103 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES (UCOM) NEW APLAKU 2 WEIJA-GBAWE SC0101 EC OFFICE, SCC NEW WEIJA […]
He was jailed by an Accra High Court. The Court on Wednesday also set aside the judgment convicting Mr Tsikata for willfully causing financial loss to the state. The Court upheld Mr Tsikata grounds of appeal pointing out that the decision of the High Court revoking a stay of proceedings pending an appeal. The Judges […]
“I have always said you need to put in stronger bans: Only one chance,” he told dpa ahead of the London premiere of the film “I Am Bolt.” “You have to try and interfere in people and tell them: listen to me, you gonna get caught, and we are not gonna give you another chance.” […]
The IAAF said the portal was secure and offered full confidentiality for those who want to report on all aspects of the doping issue, ranging from suspicion of doping and involvement of coaches to trafficking of forbidden substances and new doping substances. “We must stand tall for clean athletes,” IAAF president Sebastian Coe said in […]
Mr Eric Fleming Kofi Dzakpasu, the EC Head of Communications, said the Commission was expecting a total of 127,394 valid registered voters to take part in the special voting; declaring that the Commission was ready to conduct the exercise. He noted that each of the 275 constituencies in the country were entitled to at least […]
The deceased, Kojo Quayson, was allegedly hit with a stick twice on the back of his head by the father of the girl, Mohammed, 52. Superintendent of Police Augustine Anyarah, the Municipal Crime Officer, who disclosed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Tarkwa, said the body had been deposited at the […]
Commissioner of Police (COP) Nathan Kofi Boakye, the Regional Commander, said they had gathered that some people had been carrying weapons and ammunitions on their vehicles, ahead of the next week’s general election. He dropped the hint at a meeting held by the regional elections taskforce with key stakeholders in Kumasi. He warned that they […]
The Tema General Hospital Blood Bank which supplies blood to public and private health institutions in the Tema Metropolis and beyond can no longer meet its monthly demand. While the Metropolis needs at least 600 pints of blood monthly, the highest it could get was about 400 units leaving a deficit of over 200. Mr […]
The projects included a District Police Headquarters at Sege, three-unit classroom block with computer laboratory and a library at Wokumagbe and six- unit classroom block funded by the GETfund at Lolonya. The Minister said the inauguration of the police station was critical in ensuring that there was peace in the area ahead of the December […]
He urged the media to do further investigations on the on-going “Woyome Judgement Debt Saga” and bring the outcome to their listeners and audience. The Minister who was speaking during his turn of the meet-the-press series in Accra, said the media was silent on the numerous judgement debt cases that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, […]
Some smokers of Marijuana, also known as Wee, are disrupting academic work at the Suame Maakro Cluster of Schools in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The unscrupulous people usually smoke ‘Wee’ on the school’s compound and the smoke usually affects the children in the classrooms. Headmistress of the school, Mary Akowuah said the smoke might […]
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